will my colleague yield for a moment? The majority leader has returned to the floor to hear a unanimous consent request--actually two of them--which we will make very brief and then yield back to the Senator from New Jersey.

yesterday we had a horrific tragedy here in the capital area. I know I speak for all of my colleagues who are holding the victims of that attack in their hearts and in their prayers: Congressman Steve Scalise, still in critical condition…

In December 2009, after a hundred committee hearings and roundtables here in the Senate, more than a hundred--adoption of over a hundred minority amendments in committee, and after 25 consecutive days of debate on the floor of the Senate…

The President--the President has called Trumpcare bill from the House 'mean' and a 'son of a B.' Do you agree with the President that the House bill was 'mean' and 'a son of a B'?

Did he call it mean because it eliminates the guarantee of Americans with preexisting conditions having equal access to insurance at the same price?

while stripping healthcare from millions of Americans, it gives a tax giveaway of roughly $600 billion to the richest Americans?

Did he call it mean because it takes a wrecking ball to rural healthcare by putting rural clinics and rural hospitals into a financial crisis?

Do you care about the public process? You cared about it when you were a citizen before.

Does the President care about the process excluding the opportunity for regular citizens and for legislators to have a chance to be deeply engaged in a very complex topic that could potentially eliminate health insurance and coverage for…

Are there other warheads that are going to--such programs, similar programs, are going to be begun in future years as an expanding array of modification or life extension?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The Ranking Member noted this was a good exploration of public policy, and, Mr. Chairman, I would just like to ask you the question are we holding this hearing in order to gain the diverse perspectives and develop…

We are going to invest considerable sums, both in the modification of our nuclear warheads and the strategies that we have for delivering them in the Triad.

I tell you, I hold a town hall in every county every year and before the town hall I meet with the local city commissioners, county commissioners and so forth.

I wanted to turn to North Korea because here in the United States, we have the NSA full of some of the brightest computer minds to be found certainly throughout our country and probably beyond.

It is extremely important, both as it relates to the security of our infrastructure, certainly the security of our elections, the security of our financial systems.

So I am just about out of time, but in the last 40 seconds, the Natural Resources Conservation Service is cut by $260 million, but that would profoundly affect the number of conservation plans it can put into place by the USDA.

I hope that the experience regarding the export of American beef to China will give us some practices that we might be able to go back and fix that and restore that opportunity to all Americans who want to support our own local ranchers.

I was fascinated by your story about South Korea and China.

So in conventional warfare, one thing that deters folks is if I attack them, they will attack back.

Do you think the McGovern-Dole Program works and does eliminating this program align with your motto of do right and feed everyone?

Last year Congress passed the national bioengineered food disclosure standard. This is not a standard I liked.

There was an adjudication based on the fact that our meat packers could not find a way to basically do it at the same cost and therefore not to create a trade barrier.

the announcement was made before the comment period ended made us feel that probably our comments had not been read.

How about with the elimination in the budget, the proposed elimination, of the Water and Waste Disposal Program?

the budget comes across less as a make American agriculture great budget and more as a rural America and farmers last budget.